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I thought I would start a post on editing images. I get asked all the time what the difference between a sooc (straight out of camera) basic edit & a finished edit looks like so I thought I would post up an example here

A sooc (straight out of the camera) image is just that with no editing or retouching what so ever. A basic edit of a digital image is just that BASIC my basic edits includes the adjustments of exposures, contracts & any white balance adjustments that need to be made.. ie: so you don’t look green like an alien or blue like a jelly bean! The white balance & skin tones are something that needs attention especially with newborns as most of the time can have red or blotchy skin before it settles down.

My final image will have colours saturated – touches to highlights & shadow’s as well as colours that would look brilliant popped you can see in mums dress & the sunset which is coming down behind the tree’s in this image that over in the basic image your hard up to see that beautiful glowing light behind the tree’s! Imagine how boring this image would look on the wall without these polished finishing touches to “make an image art”. These are just a few of the things that are done to make an image polished! The example below is of a basic edit & a final retouched image.

I am also going to do a post on  print labs also & why photographers are very resistant in giving/selling digital negatives… I will have examples from different labs so you can see the difference & have an understanding as to why the professional photographer cringes when they see certain printed images from certain labs – you might never of really noticed until the up-coming post.

I went into a clients home a few weeks ago and saw an image from a session we had done months prior, the family had this image printed at a chemist/cheap lab and the image was “grey” I squirmed when I saw the image because it was nothing like the finished colours of the final image I had produced so this in a clients home was not a true representation of my work. I just want to educate my clients that there really are HUGE differences when choosing a lab for printing images depending on the lab… The professional lab that I use for all my prints come exactly the same colour from my digital image on screen as it does when it is fine printed at the professional Lab))

Jodie xx